Exeter Cavern Club

Opened in 1991, with their first show on Valentines Day, Exeter Cavern (or The Cavern Club) is a small venue, located on Queen Street, in the centre of Exeter, Devon, England. Being located not-far-from Teignmouth, it was one of the venues where Muse performed the most, and is perhaps most notorious for being the place where the band started it all. In 1995, Muse also took part in the Battle of the Bands, which took place in The Cavern.

According to Dom, Muse have performed in this club about 32 times (or 33 in total, including the 2022 gig).

In 2016, the club suffered an accidental fire, which destroyed part of the club, with the basement, where the fire started, being severly damaged. Due to the quick actions from both the people and the staff, the club was succesfully refurbished and reopened in May of 2017.

Muse appearances

• 2022-04-07
• 1999-07-19
• 1999-06-23
• 1999-01-25
• 1998-05-16
• 1997-12-15
• 1997-11-08
• 1997-07-15
• 1997-05-24
• 1997-03-31
• 1995-10-??
• 1995-04-06
• 1994-10-?? (supporting Tribute to Nothing)

Technical Specs

The following information came from a technical sheet for the Exeter Cavern:

CAVERN TECHNICAL SPEC

VENUE INFORMATION

Venue: CAVERN
Address: 83-84 QUEEN ST
Town: EXETER
Capacity: 220
Dressing room: SMALL (no shower)

TIME SCHEDULE

Get in: 5
Sound check: 6 (main band)
Dinner: (in house), 7
Doors: 8
Onstage: 8.15 OPENER
9.00 2nd BAND
9.45 BREATHE

Curfew: CLUBNIGHT FOLLOWING BANDS
Parking: From 5 outside venue (in loading bay)

PA SPECS

Opus rig with 32 ch soundcraft
Engineer Mike Mills 07793315190
P.A. spec list.
Front of house- 3K opus rig (3 way) (master runs through a BSS graphic) with opus, C-audio and amcron amps running on BSS fds 360 3-way crossovers.
Monitoring- 2x turbosound wedges (separate mixes) running on a 1200watt crown amp after behringer graphics.
Drum fill- 1x yamaha full range stack running on 1200 watt crown amp after a behringer graphic (separate mix).

Desk- 28 channel soundcraft..6 aux, 7 bus.
Outboard-
BSS 4way gate.
Drawmer 2way gate.
Behringer 4way compressor/ limiter.
Behringer 2way compressor/ limiter.
2x drawmer 2way compressors.

Effects-
Yamaha rev-7.
TC electronic D2 multitap delay.

Microphones-
6x shure SM58.
2x shure SM57.
1x shure beta SM57.
1x shure pg52 bass drum mic.
2x sennheiser 609e.
4x sennheiser 604e.
1x sennheiser 602.
1x unbranded pencil condenser.

DI boxes-
5x orchid electronics DI boxes.

Venue address

The Cavern
83-84 Queen St
Exeter,
Devon, UK
EX4 3RP

Tel: 01392 495370
Fax: 01392 271625

Mail: exetercavern@hotmail.com

See also

• Cavern Club website
• Alternative domain